Sentences with phrase «capture waste heat»

Martin Wilcox, head of future networks at UK Power Networks, said: «We are carrying out a feasibility project exploring the potential to capture waste heat from one of our high voltage electricity substations and use it to warm local homes for the first time.

I recently wrote about a technology that aims to capture the waste heat from power plant and vehicle combustion with the potential to power 11.4 million U.S. homes and small scale applications like heat exchangers in showers have become more popular.

CHP captures the waste heat from fuel - based power generators for local use.

The idea of capturing waste heat for other purposes is well known and very green, but what about when the waste heat is derived from burning the dead?

Solar cogeneration captures this waste heat and transforms it into real value — hot water.

Not exact matches

Other features include high - efficiency lighting fixtures with motion detector switches and a system that captures and re-uses waste heat.

Food waste can also be turned into renewable energy through anaerobic digestion, where the methane emissions from broken down food are captured to produce biogas, heat and energy.

The simple soak and heating process develops a carbon capture material with the additional environmental benefits of recycling a waste product.

The glass energy capture system will recycle waste heat from the smelting process to increase energy efficiency.

The researchers want to take this waste heat and capture it to produce more power.

The potential for capturing heat — from power plants, industrial smokestacks and even vehicle tailpipes — and converting it into electricity is huge, allowing heat that is currently wasted to be used to generate power.

A new heat - exchanger system to capture and recycle waste heat from oxy - fuel furnaces could cut process CO2 emissions by 30 % and nitrous oxide emissions by 90 %, as well enhancing thermal efficiency and significantly reducing operating costs.

Scott's widescreen compositions capture the expansiveness of the heat - soaked Southwest plains; however, with the exception of a stunning Joan of Arc - inspired ending, Scott's gift for slick visual splendor is wasted on a run - of - the - mill Bonnie and Clyde - ish tale posing as profound social statement.

Commercial kitchens, such as the one associated with The Commons at Gutman Library are typically associated with energy intensive equipment; however, the project team incorporated many energy efficient design elements into the project, such as the capture and reuse of waste heat from the refrigeration equipment to pre ‐ heat the air supplied to the space.

Although they mentioned regenerative braking and stop / start functionality, you'd also have to think that they may find a way to incorporate their recently announced «turbo steamer» concept, which captures a good portion of the otherwise wasted heat energy.

Each time you participate in a Northwest Earth Institute Discussion Course, or purchase one of our course books, you now have the option to contribute funds which will go directly toward supporting projects and programs that include forest management, renewable energy projects, waste heat capture and landfill gas management.

Combined heat and power: Capturing wasted energy.

The initial Climeworks project will capture roughly 900 tons of CO2 / year to sell to a greenhouse that is already recycling inexpensive heat energy from a nearby waste incineration plant.

Expect more oil sands projects to capture and reuse waste heat and embrace alternative processes that consume less energy.

Global Thermostat says it can capture CO2 for just $ 50 per tonne, using hardly any electricity and waste heat at 85C.

A major driver in these efficiency gains has been our increased investment in cogeneration — a technology enabling us to capture heat generated from electricity production that is otherwise wasted, and use it in other industrial processes.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

Eligible technologies include energy storage, wind turbines, pressure reduction turbines, fuel cells, waste heat capture and combined heat and power (CHP), internal combustion engines (ICE), microturbines and gas turbines.

Landfill methane can be tapped, captured, and used as a fairly clean energy source for generating electricity or heat, rather than leaking into the air or being dispersed as waste.

The project also includes mechanical separation and utilization of digested manure solids and the capture of generator waste heat for heating purposes.

Process heating or cooling waste heatrecovery: An energy conservation system whereby some space heating or water heating is done by actively capturing byproduct heat that would otherwise be ejected into the environment.

I trust they're also considering what happens when the heat exchanger pipe cracks inside the molten salt (think hot liquid glass, basically) and the stuff goes up in a big steam explosion and rains out downwind — if they have a fairly innocuous material that can be hosed off a neighborhood, this would be nice to have around any place there's waste high temperature heat being thrown away that could be captured.

So much so that I am working to build motor vehicles that would dramatically change things; also I have been pursuing ways to capture CO2 from the air and ways to generate electric power without the excessive waste of heat that we now are doing.

There will be systems to reuse waste heat, irrigate with captured rainwater, and compost wood waste.

Think about dashboard technologies, biodegradable or 100 % recyclable products, modular construction, green roofs, localized heat and power generation, LEED requirements and limitations, zero - waste, gray water and water capture, non-construction re-construction, daylighting, air quality, climate change requirements, solar, and cradle to cradle design.

If those wavelengths are truly captured energy, they are simply converted into matter: new cells, new molecules, etc. with no waste heat.

He has particular experience of Electricity Market Reform, Contracts for Difference, carbon capture and storage, solar, wind, tidal, energy from waste and electricity and heat power purchase, off - take and supply agreements, as well as regulated asset and PPP models.Alex also advises clients in the Transport, Utilities, Oil and Gas and Mining sectors.